Post 19

Straight after filming we carried on with our short film process and began logging, capturing and editing out footage. It was ideal that our filming was completed over one day, as this enabled us to move straight onto editing with no holdbacks. As mentioned before, we did experience some problems when it came to the editing process, this was the point when we realised the flash from the camera was an interference for the lens on the filming of the short. Once we had an understanding of this, we all had no choice other than to re film. After doing so and ensuring there were no interference possible problems our filming was a success.

As a group we spent equal time together at the edit suite’s logging, capturing and editing our film. We managed to plan so we all edited in our free periods, this not only involved Charlotte travelling from Hemel School, but also some other work was put on hold to an extend, from all of us. Since the beginning of our pre-production work we knew that the music would be vital for our film, the music would give the film the chance to develop its mood and tone and to also set a pace for the actions that take place throughout. We began research for music quite early on in the stages of editing and after a lot of research we all agreed on two different pieces of music for the beginning and end. At first there were raised questions about having separate pieces of music; some thought it would work better if the music was the same throughout, but as we concluded our editing we realised that it did in fact work better with two separate bits of music. The music at the end draws a close to the short film, where as at the beginning the music creates suspense so together they work nicely in setting the ideal tone of the film.  We used the website “moby gratis” to pick our music, the website is copyright free and had a wide selection of songs we could choose from.

During the editing, problems with the volume of dialogue occurred. Kenny’s friend who stands at the window is noticeably quieter than the remainder of dialogue from Kenny. During editing we all individually tried to manage the sound levels to increase the volume, but the sound began to sound artificial and unrealistic if we increased the sound too much.  After increasing the sound as loud as we could, friend Graham’s position remained. Ideally, it would have been better if Graham was louder and through feedback we have received various criticisms on the volume of his dialogue and with this in mind we are all aware that next time we should place a microphone directly by him as apposed to where the noise is travelling too.

The 'Screen Grab' above if taken when Graham, Lucas' friend, is trying to comunicate with Lucas.

Similar to our AS project we added dissolves and fades to black to distinguish the difference scenes. These also elaborate the fact that each fade to black is a different day. We also used lighting effects in a few shots to reduce shadows on faces. In the scene where Graham is standing outside and dialogue is heard from him to Lucas, the light over Lucas is noticeably a lot darker as apposed to the natural light outside. Through editing we altered the lighting capacity and enhanced the light on Lucas, this worked to our advantage but is not as affective as it would have been if we had managed the light correctly on the day of filming.

The 'Screen Grab' above shows the difference in light from the outside compared to the inside.

Throughout filming and editing we came across minimum, continuity issues which we were incredibly relieved about. The most noticeable would be towards the end of the filming when Lucas’ has a knife with blood to his hand. In one of the shots the blood is there, however on another it has disappeared. When filming we filmed from a variety of different positions for those specific shots, so due to no fault but our own we didn’t match up continuity and put blood on his hand in all of the shots. This wasn’t too much of an issue as it doesn’t appear to be that noticeable, and there are no further comments on this in the feedback. Saying this, it is still apparent and we noticed it when editing and it could have been easily resolved if we paid a little more attention back when we were filming.



The ‘Screen Grab’ highlights the continuity issue with the blood on Lucas’ hand.

 Our overall editing process was completed reasonably quickly. This was because of numerous reasons, the first, most significant would be that we were a lot more organised with managing our time causing us not to be so rushed. The second would be that we had a lot more experience than last year, the editing process for me last year was tedious and long due to my limited knowledge on how to use the software (Adobe Premiere), this year I felt a lot more confident and could manage the program successfully and quickly.